Germogen, Metropolitan of Zagreb

Germogen
Metropolitan of Zagreb and whole Croatia
Archbishop Germogen in Sremski Karlovci, 1934
Church	Croatian Orthodox Church
See	Zagreb
Installed	6 June 1942
Term ended	30 June 1945
Predecessor	Church formed
Successor	Church abolished
Personal details
Birth name	Georgy Ivanovich Maximov
Born	(1861-01-10)10 January 1861 Stanitsa Nogavskaya, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire
Died	30 June 1945(1945-06-30) (aged 84) Zagreb, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia

Metropolitan Germogen (Russian: Митрополит Гермоген, secular name Georgy Ivanovich Maximov, Russian: Георгий Иванович Максимов; 10 January 1861 – 30 June 1945) was bishop of Aksay (9 May 1910 – 1919), Vicar of the Don Diocese, 23rd Bishop of Yekaterinoslav and Novomoskovsk (1919 – November 1920), Governor of the Russian Orthodox municipalities on Crete and North Africa with a seat in Athens (1922), Archbishop of Yekaterinoslav and Novomoskovsk (ROCOR, titular) (1922–1942), member of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (1924–1942), the head (Patriarch or Metropolitan) of the Croatian Orthodox Church (1942–1945).

Georgy Ivanovich Maximov was born in 1861 in Stanitsa Nogavskaya (the Cossacks were called Tatars Nogais- hence the "Nogavskaya") in the Don Host Oblast of the Russian Empire to a Cossack family. His father was a church reader (Russian: псаломщик). He finished elementary and parochial school in Nogavskaya and high school in Ust-Medvedicka. He studied from 1879 to 1882, in the Don Theological Seminary in Novocherkassk, and then attended the Spiritual Academy in Kiev.

After graduating from the Kiev Theological Academy in 1886, he served as a priest in Novocherkassk, where he remained for years. Soon he became principal of the church gymnasium in Ust-Medvedicka in 1894. He left Don Episcopacy in 1902 for Vladikavkaz, where he became rector of the cathedral in Vladikavkaz.